Today in Berlin: asylum policy battle revealing itself as what it really is: a fight over power, and the future of chancellor #Merkel. Arrayed against her: the MerkelMustGo faction in her party, her Bavarian sister party CSU, Austria‘s chancellor Kurz, and Italy‘s Matteo Salvini

Fight between Merkel & CSU over migration & power escalates. Experienced CSU MP to CDU colleague in front of journalists: “You are crazy. Merkel doesn’t care about German people or MPs. And you allow yourselves to be told that she is the last super-European”. https://t.co/4T7cXrBYa2

I am in Berlin and you can cut the tension with a knife. Merkel is on the brink at the moment. In fact, one foot is over the ledge and she is peering into the abyss. AfD may be merely in opposition, but their pressuring of CSU from the right may lead to end of her chancellorship. https://t.co/0esmVApem0

The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!

BREAKING. #Italy Interior minister and LEAGUE leader Salvini: "I've asked for a census of the Roma community living in Italy. The irregular ones will be deported. However, we'll have to keep" in Italy "the Romas with Italian citizenship, unfortunately" (ANSA agency) pic.twitter.com/6MrC0ZsLMK

_____The law provides us structure to guide us through paralyzing and trying times. But it requires us a vision to its procedures and higher purposes. Before we assume our respective roles in this enduring drama just let me say that when these frail shadows we inhabit now have quit the stage we'll meet and raise a glass again together in Valhalla.